PERILS of PUBLISHING by Leigh Lundin The printing side of the business I have a passing familiarity with and I’m gaining familiarity with the writing side. Actual publishing remains a mystery to me, and from time to time I try to take a peek under the covers, so to speak. It was with some horror, […]

WHO ARE YOU AND WHY AM I READING ABOUT YOU? by Angela Zeman I’m in a funny spot in my writing life. My desk is bare. Meaning, I’ve fulfilled all writing plans and obligations to date. I don’t know what your writing life is like, but mine has always been in a constant state of […]

ROSH HASHANAH IN THE E.R. by Steven Steinbock Life has a funny way of intervening at inopportune times. Wednesday afternoon as I was nearly finished with this column, I got a phone call from the high school football field. My son Nate the Running Back got tackled by the biggest kid on the team and […]

CHALLENGES by Deborah Elliott-Upton Sunday, September 16, begins the week I am the featured writer for the Bylines 2007 Writer’s Desk Calendar. The wire bound calendar is touted as “The Essential Weekly Planner For Writers,” but it works just as well for readers who like to know more about writers. An essay accompanies a photo […]

A MASTER BEGINS by Robert Lopresti A few days ago something one of my blogmates wrote got me thinking and I went looking for the story I wanted to use by way of reply. I knew it was a story by Jack Ritchie, but when I flipped through a book of his stuff I got […]

KEEPING THE BOOKS by Melodie Johnson Howe Last month when the Zaca fire raged near where we live an eerie orange glow enveloped us as if w’d been captured in amber. As ash poured down like dirty rain I began to think what I would take with me if we had to evacuate. Some female […]

VERY LITTLE BRAIN by James Lincoln Warren A golden thread among all our contributors in the past week is the importance of exposing children to reading. The trend continues herewith, although being me, I’m taking the opportunity to bitch a little. J. R. R. Tolkien once made a remark to the effect that a children’s […]